Display dispenser



July 24, 1928."

H. ZIEMMERMAN DISPLAY DISPENSER Filed Feb. 2, 1927 727% I Jewry ZZe/fl/rze/Wzw; 1/231 stated July 24, 1928.

, UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

HENRY ZIEMMEBMAN, OI CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHICAGO CARI) BOARD COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY DISPENSER.

This invention relates to .a. display easel stand of card board or the like, which may also be utilized for dispensing packages of gum, candy, shaving soap. and the like, permitting the withdrawal of but one package at a time, the whole comprising a novel lllustrating display stand which any retail dealer such as a druggist, grocer, or the like might have in his show case, counter, or

table for attractively displaying and vending articles contained therein. The invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts for carrying out the desired result.

In the accompanying drawing;

kinds are used for gums, candies, and many otherarticles which can be wrapped in small parcels and vended automatically by means of a slot machine arrangement, but these displaying and vending cabinets and devices are usually too large and expensive to be given without additional charge to a grocer, druggist or other retail vender of such articles. Often these vending devices are too large and cumbersome to be placed on.

top of the show case or counter of a retail store where they must be in order to be practical for use.

The present invention is neither designed nor intended to take the place of any coin operated vending device but does display small articles or packages in an inexpensive and attractive manner so that a retail dealer can easily set up and fill one of these display stands, which is neither cumbersome nor heavy, and which will prevent the purchaser from taking more than one article at a time,

Displaying cabinets and cases of various.

thereby tending to eliminate the loss of such articles even though they are placed within easy access of the customers.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, a display card 1 is formed with an opening or aperture 2 which forms a sight opening through which articles 3 arranged at the back thereof may be seen. Below the opening 2 is a slot 4 with a bendable tongue 5 cut therefrom and bent backwardly and with a central thumb and finger hole 6 provided for removing the articles 3 through the opening 4.

At the back of the display card is a foldable strip 7 attached at its lateral edges and formed with vertical lines which adapt it to be folded outwardly to form a container or receiver at the back of the display card 1 for the articles 3. When the articles 3 are not contained therein, the strip 7 may be folded flatly against the rear side of the display card 1 and the entire device will then occupy a very small space and can be packed away flatly.

At one or both sides of the strip 7 there may be an angular extension 8 to form a stand or easel by means of which the display card may be supported in a slightly inclined or substantially upright position, and this easel wing may be su ported and locked in its extended position dmy means of a tran verse locking wing 9, in a well known manner.

In order to hold the strip 7 in distended osition, it-is provided with an opening 10 or receiving the free end of the bendable tongue 5of the card 1, which thereupon forms a slide upon which the articles 3 will rest intheir lowermost position, as shown more clearly in Figure 7. In order to hold the articles 3 on the slide, the opening 4 is formed at thelower corners with projecting shoulders 11 so that the lowermost edge of the lower article 3 will engage the shoulders and the article cannot be dislodged from the opening without manually raising it from engagement with the shoulders. For this purpose the finger hole 6 is provided, which extends below the lower edge of the tongue 5 and in the hinged edge of the tongue so that the finger or thumb may be'inserted in the opening to grasp the lowermost article and raise it clear of the engaging shoulders 11, whereupon it may be withdrawn from the upper portion of the opening 4.

For somewhat lar er article, or articles of a difi'erent shape, it is found that a different shaped dispensin opening may be provided, as shown more 0 early in Figures 3 and 4. In this construction the front board 12 has a tongue 13 which engages in an opening 14: of a backpiece 15, the tongue being out out to form side shoulders 16 in the front board. If the articles 17 which are dispensed are nearly square, the lowermost article, after engaging the inclined tongue 13, will slide into engagement with the shoulder 16 and will be held in place against the shoulders by the engagement of the next article 17 above it. The opening in the front board 12 is sufficiently large so that the lowermost articles can be engaged from the top and removed without requiring a finger hole, as shown in Figures 3 and 4.

Another dispensing device may be provided for a similar display holder, as shown in Figures 5 and 6. In this case the holder comprises a front board 18 and a backpiece 19 with a discharging opening 20 near the bottom of the front board. A discharging member 21 of card board or the like rests flatly at the bottom of the opening 20 and has wings 21 which are bendable upwardly substantially at right angles to slide in openings 22 through the backpiece 19. A t the rear of the wings 21 are looking wings 23 which may be inserted through the openings 22 of the backpiece 19 but which when inserted, the openings 22 will return pressure to their flat position to take up an inclined position, as shown in Figure 5, in which they will not pass through the openings 22 and will engage the back of the backpieee 19. as shown in the broken line position in Figure 6. When this discharging slide 21 is pulled forwardly by engagement with the front thereof, it will thereupon discharge the lowermost of a series of articles 24 because of the engagement of the wings 21 therewith, the discharged article then taking the broken line position shown in Figure 6, after which the discharge member 21 is moved rearwardly until the next lowest member 24 falls into discharging position.

It is obvious therefore that a display device of this kind may be produced inexpensively from card board,'or the like, permitting articles to be discharged therefrom one at a time, and even providing a discharging device, if necessary. The articles may be withdrawn bodily by manually grasping them or by simply tipping them from their lower inclined positions or by manually operating an ejecting device. These display stands are made of foldable material which collapse into a minimum space but which are readily unfolded and looked as containers and supported in an upright position. It is obvious that various changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim:

1. A collapsible display device comprising an apertured frontpiece and a foldable backpiece connected therewith, a tongue from the frontpiece extending rearwardly and up-; wardly to incline an article outwardly in the aperture, and engaging the baekpiece to hold it in distended position.

2. In a display device, an apertured froritpiece with an integral bendable tongue exteding rearwardly therefrom, a backpiece foldable to collapse against the frontpiece and extensible outwardlyf to form a receptacle and having an opening adjacent the free end of the tongue, the end of the tongue engaging in the opening to hold the backpiece in distended position, the tongue being inclined and forming a slide upon which the lowermost article will rest.

3. In a display device, a front-piece having a display opening and a discharge opening below the display opening with a tongue out from said lower opening and extending upwardly and rearwardly, a backpiece attachable at the sides and extensible rearwardly to form a container at the back of the display opening, and having a slot to be engaged by the upper end of the tongue of the frontpiece, to hold the tongue in inclined position, and to hold the backpiec'e in distended position, the tongue forming an inclined dispensing slide upon which the lowermost article to be dispensed will rest.

4. In a display device of the class described, afront-piece with a dispensing opening adjacent the bottom, means forming a receptacle, an inclined tongue formed from the material of the dispensing opening and inclined at the bottom thereof to form a dispensing slide, and the front-piece having shoulders at the lower edges of the opening to engage an article at the ends for preventing it from falling freely through the discharging opening.

5. In a device of the class described, a frontpiece having a discharging opening at the bottom with shoulders at the lower corners, means forming a receptacle at the back of the frontpiece, and an inclined tongue formed of the material of the front piece which is removed to form the opening and extending from the lower edge of the opening so that articles contained in the receptacle will be inclined toward the opening but engaged at the ends by the said shoulders.

6. In a device 0t the class described, a frontpiece having a discharging opening with shoulders at the lower corners, a finger aperture in the lower edge in combination with a collapsible piece to form a receptacle at the back of the front-piece, and a tongue extending between the frontpiece and backpiece in an inclined position to hold the backpiece in distended position and to direct articles in the container against the shoulders atthe ends of the opening, such articles being manually releasible from the shoulders by engaging them through the finger hole.

7. A display device of the class described comprising a frontpiece havin a sight opening for-disclosing a portion 0% articles to be dispensed with a separate dischargin opening below it, a collapsible means to orm a receptacle at the rear of the openin s, a foldable easel stand for supporting t device in a substantially uprig includin a tongue extending from the lower edge of t e discharging opening for holding the receptacle forming means in distende position, said tongue being in position to int posltion, means cline the lowermost article from the receptacle to divert it from the discharging openin In a device of the class described, a front plate with a dischar e openlng ad- 'acent the bottom having s oulders in the lower corners, a foldable backpiece to form a receptacleat the rear of the frontpiece, and a tongue extending from the lower edge of the opening and engaging the ba kpiece to form an inclined guide for the lowermost article contained in a reoe tacle, said lowermost article being uide by the inclined tongue to engage t e shoulders, and sald lowermost article being held in place against such shoulders by engagement of the articles above it.

HENRY ZIEMMERMAN. 

